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With her flowing blond locks, ornate ball gown and sparkly glass slippers, Lily James certainly looks the part in the new trailer for Disney's live-action "Cinderella" movie. But as befits a heroine these days, she may not be swept off her feet so easily. The two-minute clip glimpses Ella's first meeting with the charming prince (Richard Madden, of "Game of Thrones"), and rather than going googly-eyed, she scolds his royal highness for staging a stag hunt. "Just because it's what's done doesn't mean it's what should be done," Ella reprimands him. Then it's the prince's turn to swoon. "You're right,"...

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With her flowing blond locks, ornate ball gown and sparkly glass slippers, Lily James certainly looks the part in the new trailer for Disney's live-action "Cinderella" movie. But as befits a heroine these days, she may not be swept off her...

Queen Elsa has a cold.
That makes things tricky for her, Kristoff, Sven and Olaf in "Frozen Fever," Disney's short-film follow-up to the blockbuster animated movie "Frozen." On Tuesday, the studio unveiled a first look at the...

Who do you think should win the Grammy this year? Polymath actor/director/artist/etc. James Franco? High camp maestro John Waters? Recently deceased comedy diva Joan Rivers? Inspirational disco queen Gloria Gaynor? Or should the prized award go to...

With its win for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture on Sunday night, "Birdman" certainly looked like another instance of the Screen Actors Guild celebrating actors for playing actors. The film follows the backstage events of a...

Here's some news that should warm the hearts of "Frozen" fanatics: "Frozen Fever," Disney's animated short reuniting the cast and creators of the blockbuster musical film, will play before the studio's live-action...

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. grew up with Hollywood royalty. Charlie Chaplin, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable and George Cukor were among the many luminaries who would come to his parents' palatial home for parties or tennis.
But even as a boy, Sam Jr. knew that...

Spotted by the eagle-eyed Erik Loomis, the Hollywood Hills apartment occupied by Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) in Robert Altman's great 1973 film "The Long Goodbye" is for rent.
According to the post on Craigslist, the price for the...

Violent, blood-soaked and filled with nudity, Roman Polanski's 1971 film version of "Macbeth" was intended to be a cinematic jolt -- a raw, realistic portrayal of medieval power plays that would be worlds away from the genteel restraint...

A new cold front is approaching in the form of "Frozen Fever," a Disney animated short that will reunite the characters and creators of the blockbuster musical film "Frozen."
Directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck and set for release...

The recent Broadway revival of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" starring James Franco received mixed to negative reviews from critics but nonetheless proved to be a box-office success, recouping its $3.8-million initial investment.
In...

The actor from Cleveland skimmed San Pedro in a banged-up Kia. He drove down a ragged street past a tattoo parlor and a sign for the Hotel Cabrillo. A few dicey-looking characters walked by with big dogs on chains. Robert McHalffey turned right and,...

Robin Williams, who died of an apparent suicide on Monday at the age of 63, was an actor of prodigious comic gifts both on stage as a stand-up comedian and on-screen as an actor. What many of his fans may not know or remember is that behind his hyper...

NEW YORK — Mikhail Baryshnikov's earliest experience in the theater began when he was a child of just 4 or 5 in present-day Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union. His mother, a Russian speaker unfamiliar with the local tongue, would drag along her young...

When she was 4, Doris Pilkington Garimara was uprooted from her home in western Australia and sent to a camp for "half-caste" aboriginals, where she grew up believing she had been abandoned and forgotten by her mother.
Decades passed before she...

William Shakespeare, whose 450th birthday is being celebrated around the world Wednesday, never seems to go out of vogue for movie directors eager to put their own spin on his classic texts.
Most of Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for the big...

Coming off her acclaimed performance as the ornery P.L. Travers in "Saving Mr. Banks," Emma Thompson has brought her considerable comic energy to Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sweeney Todd," which is being performed in a semi-staged...

True Detective: The Complete First Season
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It's indicative of the respect HBO commands as a cultural force that the channel's original series attracted big-time movie actors Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson to play a...